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Alban on 20th June is a mistake (or a post-1969 forgery!) - it should be
22nd June. I think the absence of St Frideswide would count against it
being an Oxford Calendar.
John Briggs
jbugslag wrote:
>
> In an article I read recently, comparing the designs in Chaucer's
> Treatise on the Astrolabe with surviving English astrolabes of the
> 14th century, one puzzling aspect of these astrolabes, exemplied by
> the Painswick Astrolabe in the British Museum, that has not
> apparently been figured out yet is why they have an abbreviated
> calendar of saints' days on the back, since astrolabes cannot be used
> to determine feast days. The author speculates that the the
> abbreviated Painswick calendar was based on the calendars of John
> Somer and Nicolas of Lynn, which I've never heard of, and one of my
> questions to the list is what these are and how they might relate to
> liturgical calendars such as that associated with the Use of Sarum,
> or of the province of Canterbury (there is a profusion of saints
> associated with Canterbury). I am also wondering, however, what
> motivated the choice of feast days, which include some English saints
> (but only male English saints!!). I am wondering if this choice may,
> in fact, be used to localize the Painswick Astrolabe to perhaps
> Oxford. Here is the calendar inscribed on the Painswick Astrolabe:
> 1 Jan. Circumcisio Domini
> 6 Jan Epiphany
> 13 Jan Hilarius
> 22 Jan Vincent
> 25 Jan Paulus conversion
> 2 Feb Maria purificatio
> 10 Feb Scolastica
> 14 Feb Valentine
> 22 Feb Petrus in cathedra in Antiochia
> 24 Feb Mathias
> 2 Mar Chad
> 12 Mar Gregorius
> 21 Mar Benedictus
> 25 Mar Maria annunciatio
> 4 Apr Ambrosius
> 14 Apr Tiburtius
> 19 Apr Alphegus
> 23 Apr Georgius
> 25 Apr Marcus
> 1 May Philippus
> 3 May Inventio cruces
> 6 May Johannes ante portam latinam
> 19 May Dunstanus
> 25 May Aldhelm
> 26 May Augustine of Canterbury
> 5 Jun Bonifacius
> 11 Jun Barnabas
> 20 June Albanus
> 24 Jun Johannes Bapt. Nativitas
> 29 Jun Petrus et Paulus
> 7 Jul Translatio S. Thome
> 15 Jul Swithinus
> 20 Jul Margareta
> 22 Jul Maria Magdalena
> 25 Jul Jacobus
> 1 Aug Petrus ad vincula
> 10 Aug Laurentius
> 15 Aug Maria assumptio
> 24 Aug Bartholomew
> 8 Sept Maria Nativitas
> 14 Sept Sancte Crucis
> 21 Sept Matthaeus
> 29 Sept Michal, archangel
> 9 Oct Dionysius
> 13 Oct Edward the Confessor translatio
> 18 Oct Lucas
> 28 Oct Simon et Judas
> 1 Nov Omnium sanctorum
> 11 Nov Martinus
> 17 Nov Hugh of Lincoln
> 25 Nov Katerina
> 30 Nov Andreas
> 6 Dec Nicholas
> 8 Dec Maria conceptio
> 21 Dec Thomas
> 25 Dec Nativitas
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